Word: gershom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goal of the conference is largely patterned after Canada's United Church which has welded Canadian Methodists, Congregationalists and most Presbyterians and hopes to include Anglicans, Baptists. Of this union, Gershom W. Mason, general counsel for Canada's United Church last week said: "[Its benefits are] a feeling of freedom to restate and interpret the doctrine of the church from time to time in the light of present day conditions, an enriched sense of fellowship, an increase of 40% in donations to the church over the aggregate amounts before the union, and the great economic savings and spiritual...
...founders" of Children's Book Week was Co-Editor Frederic Gershom Melcher of the Publisher's Weekly (trade organ), long high in bookmen's councils. In 1921 he supplied the American Library Association with a medal, named in honor of Publisher John Newbery of England, an early advocate of particular books for particular small people. This medal was to be awarded annually to that U. S. writer who should make the "most distinguished" contribution to U. S. literature for children. It was no secret that Mr. Melchei hoped by this ruse to induce able writers to turn...
...University scholarship; Warren Everett Blake 2G., of Newton, Thayer Fellowship; Harris Marshall Chadwell 2G., of Amesbury, University Scholarship; William Charles Cooper Jr. 1G., of Claremont, Cal., University Scholarship; Nathan Lincoln Drake 2G., of Watertown, Leverett Saltonstall Scholarship; James Harold Easterby 1G., of Charleston, S. C., Thayer Scholarship; Harold Gershom Files 3G., of Roxbury, Thayer Fellowship Bireie Senkar Cuba 8G of Colcutta, India, Hemenway Fellowship; Harry Helson 1G., of Old Town, Me., University Scholarship; John Leslie Hotson 1G., of Cambridge, University Scholarship; Michiel Hendrick de Kock 3G., of Kliphenvel Station, South Africa, Gorham Thomas Scholarship; Noel Charlton Little 2G., of Brunswick...